Shopper's Delight

We've just got back from a few days in England with aged Aunty Betty and so we needed to go shopping for food.  Previous visits had seen us go to Waitrose which was a hedonistic pleasure ... but expensive!  So this time we thought we'd go downmarket and use Lidl as we do here in France.  However we didn't use Lidl as we found a nearby Aldi.  And we were amazed!  10 o'clock on a Monday morning, and we had to queue to get into their carpark!

We had thought that the idleness  as typified by the range of prepared fruit, vegetables and meals to be found in Waitrose was limited to the monied class.  But we found that Aldi had as much prepared ingredients and meals and at about half the price.  So the aversion to cooking is obviously now spread across all of British society .. and we understand why Aldi and Lidl are putting the major supermarkets into the shade.

Shame that we only had hand luggage and so couldn't bring anything back home ... everything is a lot cheaper in England! (except the wine)